Rita Mae Brown Quotes

Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.

Rita Mae Brown

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• Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Moment
  • Become
  • Significance

• Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Today
  • Ideas
  • Economy

• I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Mother

• Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Character
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Men
  • Stronger
  • Weakness

• I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Work
  • Want
  • Change

• I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.

  

  Yael Naim
  • People
  • Connection
  • Hide

• I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • World
  • Great
  • Mind

• I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Play
  • Feel
  • Happen

• When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.

  

  Washed Out
  • Home
  • Pretty
  • Feel

• I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Racism

• For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Small
  • Need
  • Unknown

• I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Never
  • Model
  • Thing

• I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Universe
  • End
  • Looking

• My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

  

  Patrick White
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Marriage

• I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place. Things are just way too good.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Dark
  • Deep

• There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • She
  • Job
  • Husband

• I love the Nineties because more than any other period of time, there was such an eclectic mix of styles going on. More so than in the Sixties and Seventies, when there was an overriding look and sound.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Time
  • Period

• People should be very free with sex, but they should draw the line at goats.

  

  Elton John
  • People
  • Free
  • Sex

• It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Government
  • Practice
  • Exercise

• Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

  

  Derek Bailey

• I always thought of myself as more American than Americans when I was living in Germany, because I always had this attitude of can-do, and if you're successful, you can show it, which is a very un-German thing, you know.

  

  Kim Dotcom
  • American
  • Attitude
  • German

• Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Sex
  • Exercise
  • Careful